Saturday, July 01, 2006

Countdown: 30 days

One month from today, I will be moving to New York City - a big change from where I have spent the last decade of my life. At the risk of sounding cliche, I will be starting a new life. I cannot wait.

I have joined the blogging world to record the activities, events and incidents as they happen to me, along with my correlated thoughts - the good, the bad and the ugly and the boring - so that maybe the bad and the ugly will be funny one day, and the boring will be ... well ... that's just life sometimes. How wonderful and unfortunate it is that we live in a society that can afford to be bored? But that's an entirely different topic (welcome to the random thoughts of Katie J).

I once heard that you have to live in New York City for at least 10 years before you can officially be considered a New Yorker. I have 10 years and 30 days to go.

Quotable NYC

"Courtney's early chitchats with me were not filled with that kind of insane intensity that really naive people have when they're fresh off the boat in New York ..."~ Alan Hunter, Former MTV VJ, of Courtney Cox, E! THS "Friends"

"One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years."~ Thomas Wolfe

"It would be childish of us to deny that our lives weren't changing. But for this night, none of us were going anywhere. That's the thing about really good friends and a really great Manhattan."~ Carrie, "Sex and the City"

More Quotable NYC

"In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is."~ Simon Hoggart

"I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the street, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me."~ Ani Difranco

“It’s not the meaning of life, Alfred, it’s the feeling of life. Look at that park down there! Just think of how many loves lost and found in it, how many first kisses kissed, how many Frisbees lost, and just remember that is your park, my friend. And you've got your whole life to walk though it.”~ Zak Orth to Freddie Prinze Jr. referring to Central Park in Down to You (2000)

"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book - and does."~ Groucho Marx

"There's a spot in Central Park ... where if you sit there long enough, the entire city walks by."~ Matthew Perry to Salma Hayek in Fools Rush In (1997)